Horseshoe.



, UNITED sTATEs y' vPATENT oEEioE.

PETER DEGE, OF WEST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGN OR OF OINEHALF TO HENRY Gr.

ROLLIILLER, OFWEST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY g HoRsEsHoE.

No. 9oo,268.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 6, 1908.

Application led `January 15,1908. Serial No. 410,950.

To all whom 'it may concern.'

Be it known that I, PETER DE01-r, a citizen of the United States, residing at West Orange, in the county of `Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horseshoes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. y

This invention relates to an improved calk and` means for holding a series of these calks on a horse-shoe so that they are detachable and attachable, and can be put on and taken off quickly and easily.

The inventlon embodies a structure of thi enable snow or ice to cake under the horses hoof, these lumps, when so formed, becoming hard and big enough to raise the calks from the ground and prevent their engagement therewith.

A further object of` this invention is to provide clips in which the calks are held, and which the calks in turn assist in holding onto the shoe, and means connecting these calk-clips to normally throw these clips in contact with the shoe, so that if `one accidentally becomes loosened it will not come olf, and this means also maintains the calkclips at their required distance from one another.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which igure 1 is a bottom view of a horse-shoe with the improved device in place, and Fig. 2 is a section on line 2, 2, in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a bottom viewof a portion of a shoe showing a modification.

The invention consists in a series of calkclips 11 which are preferably made U-shaped and have the thinned or beveled portion 12 to fit against the top edge of the shoe, which while giving suicient bearing surface, is not obstruction enough to prevent its being inserted between the hoof of thehorse and `the shoe, when the shoe is in place on the hoof. In the sideof the clip opposite to the thinned or beveled portion 12, is screwed gaging the shoe, securely holds the calk-clip in place. The calk has a rectangular portion 15 to provide means for engaging it with a wrench or similar tool for turning it, and also has a pointed or otherwise formed end so as to give a ready engagement with ice or hard ground. Thesel calks can be placed too in a calk-clip on the toe of the shoe, as shown in I4`ig.1, and this is the preferred form. Smaller calk-clips holding one calk are placed along the sides of the shoe.

Each calk-clip has a perforation 17 therein, in which is fitted the ends of a wire 18, which is suitably bent and has, within itself, a spring' action which tends to throw the side calk-clips in contact with the shoe, and also to hold the toe calk-clips in place. These wires 1S also maintain the calk-clips in place if the calks should, by some unforeseen circumstance, become loosened. I prefer to place, on each clip, a lock nut 19 which also holds the calk in place in its clip, and this lock nut is preferably rectangular to give a grasping place to ak wrench or similar tool andto also give the calk a generally tapered v conformation from its point to the calk-clip. I prefer to use two wires 18, one running from each side calk-clip, and both wires entering the calk-clip that is placed at the toe of the shoe.

' In Fig. 3 I show a modification where the shoe is supplied with a permanent toe calk 20, and in this case I prefer to use two smaller calk-clips 11 so disposed as to avoid the toe calk 20, and in this case I may use a single wire 21, suitably bent or forged, to enter these toe calk-clips and having the ends thereof adapted to engage the calk-clips on the side of the shoe. In this view I also show a modified form of the device for holding the calks in the clips, consisting of the set screws 22, the oflice of these set screws being obvious from the drawing.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. In combination with a horse-shoe, a series of U-shaped calk-clips bridging the inside edge-,of the shoe, calks on the clips, the clips having perforations on the bottom of the U,

-and a spring wire bent to form projections to enter .the perforations in the `clips and heldtherein by its own spring action, and acting to press the clips toward the shoe and keep them spaced apart, the wire being detachable.

2. In combination with a horse-shoe, :L sekeep them spared apart, the wire being de- 1,0 ries of U-shaped calli-clips bridging the inside taehable :1nd out of Contact with the shoe. edge of the shoe, edks passing through the In testimony, that I claim the foregoing, I clips to secure the clips to the shoe, the clips have hereunto set my hund this 14th dny of having perforations on the bottom of the U, January 1908.

and a spring Wire bent to form projections PETER DEC/H. to enter the perforations in the Clips and Vitnesses: held therein by its own spring action, and VM. H. CAMFIELD,

acting to press the clips toward the shoe and y E. A. PELL. 

